디지털텍스트를 통한 조지 허버트의 모양시 읽기와 가르치기

• 영문명: Reading and Teaching George Herbert’s Figure Poems via Interactive Digital Texts
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 정덕애(Duk-Ae Chung)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제15집 2호, 273~296쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.12.31

영문 초록

As a part of the interdisciplinary project that aims to combine technology and the humanities, this paper explores a way to read and teach George Herbert’s figure poems by creating an interactive digital text. This paper explores the possibility of using digital texts as educational means for Korean students to concentrate on the visual imagery of poetic language. The significance of imagery in reading poetry is discussed in the first part of paper, in the context of the long tradition of the picture theory of poetry, emblem books, iconology, and Renaissance interest in the materiality of language. The second part analyzes Herbert’s poems to demonstrate how the conflict between meaning and image in his poems can be digitally rendered. Herbert is perhaps the most visual among metaphysical poets: in his figure poems such as “The Altar” or “Easter Wings” the stanza form simply adopts the visual form of the poem’s title; and in his hieroglyphic poems such as “The Pulley” and “The Windows” a visual form emerges as the unifying focus of our reading. Indeed, Herbert regards his poem as a meeting point of divine vision and verbal signs, meaning and images. Yet, there exists a strange disruption in Herbert's poemswhen the poet becomes uncertain whether his visual images are used for self-display and may blur the divine vision. The latter part of this paper analyzes “The Altar” and explores how the poem can be re-made into an interactive digital text that can make students more aware of this disruption in the poem’s visual imagery. The first word of the poem, “broken,” suggests that the image of altar we see in the stanza form is not the altar the poet/repentant rears in the poem. Just as the poet/repentant desperately tries to build the altar with broken pieces of his heart, students are asked to put each word in the right order in the digital text to complete the poem. If a student fails to put the right word in the right position, the altar shape of the poem falls apart, creating a terrible sense of disruption. Unless the meaning is understood, the image cannot hold. Our digital text is a simple model of viewer-activated poem, compared to more sophisticated digital poems that use various interactive visual and sonic techniques. Yet, used as a supplement to the printed text, it can enable our students to become more conscious of Herbert’s poetic struggle as well as the strongly visual aspects of his poetry.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 글

Ⅱ. 영시 교육에 있어 시각적 심상의 중요성

Ⅲ. 표상시 전통과 허버트 시의 시각성

Ⅳ. 허버트 모양시의 디지털 텍스트 예

Ⅴ. 맺는 말

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

조지 허버트 모양시 심상 쌍방향성 디지털 텍스트 표상 『제단』 『신전』 George Herbert figure poem imagery interactive digital text emblem. “The Altar ” The Temple